Word: pantagruel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rabelais' jocose giant Pantagruel, under whose tongue a whole army once hid, might find the 500-ft. U. S. plane now being designed no wonder. But certainly the Arabian roc, which carried off elephants for its nestlings as an eagle rapes a mouse, would shy from the monstrous thing U. S. engineers propose to build for $5,000,000. Who the financiers are, who the builders, was kept secret. That it was a bona fide project Harry Westcott of Westcott & Mapes, Inc., New Haven and Manhattan engineering firm, testified immediately after Governor John H. Trumbull of Connecticut had predicted...
That the literal English translation of these very same adventures of Gargantua and Pantagruel which are barred in the original French version can be and are freely sold throughout the country apparently makes no difference to our hyper-paternalistic fatherland. The same inconsistency appeared in the recent barring of certain editions of Voltaire's Candide in Boston...
...cure, he shortly resigned both posts and disappeared from anecdote till on his deathbed, surrounded by grieving friends, he joked at their grief. Much that is lost of Rabelais' personal history crops up in his story of "his second self," Panurge - cozener, roysterer, rhyme ster, philosopher, companion to Pantagruel, "a very gallant and proper man of his person, only that he was a little lecherous, and naturally subject to a kinde of disease, which at that time they called lack of money." Together these uncommonly good fellows rollicked and rioted over land and sea, playing havoc with solemn industrious...
...whimsicality of the heroine, her generous disposition towards regiments and regiments of the military. No wedding is recorded, yet suddenly, almost miraculously, she brings forth a son called "the little Marine." His exploits are then made the subject of exhaustive saga, beside which the Rabelaisian Odysseys of Gargantua and Pantagruel dwindle to commonplace proportions...